@coldjoint,
coldjoint wrote:Like "true democracy" is just mob rule?[/color]
I don't think so nor did I imply such. (The
ekklesia certainly wasn't a mob rule, though (male) persons not attending were called "idiōtēs".
I watched once a
Landsgemeinde in the smallest canton of Switzerland, nothing like a mob.
In Switzerland, however, they had and have a couple of parties - in the Greek city states, well, not as we understand the term today but similar.